Electric light and power system.



C. C. NICHOLS E W. H. WRIGHT. ELECTRIC LlGHT AND POWER SYSTEM.

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AUnirse CHARLES C. NCHOll-S ANB YVLLIAM ASSIGNGE TO NDHCLS s WRIGHT MOTOR CU., OF 'BUFEALQ NEW YORK, l CGRPORATGN F NEVI YCJRK.

ELECQE EEG-LT AND EOYTER SYSTEM.

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To all wwm t may concern and 1WILLIAM il.' lliiucnr, citizens oi the United States, residing` at Bulalo, in the county oiErie and State of New York, have invented new and useful improvements in Electric Lig-lit and Power Systems, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to electric light and .power systems.

More particularly it relates to systems employing a gasengine, a generator of electric energy and a storage battery, wherein the energy of the engine ina-y belused directly as mechanical energj, or converted into electric energy and used directly from the generator, or converted and stored for future independent or supplemental use;

Our invention relates also to improvements in light and power systems Wliicli render the operations automatic, hereafter more fully shown; and it relates, furthermore, to novel devices and combinations which make possible the construction of an electric light and power plant as a portable rneclianical una-as a single.. complete, automatic machine, as distinguished from installation for light or power comprisiorf separate rnecliines and consequent separate supervision and control. o.

The object ot our invent-ion is to combine the energies of a gasongine, an electric generator and an electric storage cattery in suolL a manner that We may' use tlie'energy of tlie gas-engine and generator directly for light or power; or store the energy of gasengine and generator L'f'or future use; or eniploy tliese two utilities at tlie saine time, storingT all energy above that required lfor immediate use 5 or use tlie stored energy for light or power independentlfY of the gasengine; or use trie gas-engine entirely separately'or independently' of the generator or storage battery.

F u rtlier objects are to render these several functions and operations automatic where such interaction is desirable; and to produc an electric light or power system which is portable and Wliicli may be constialcted, assembled and shipped from a factory the same as any other unit machine, reducing,l the factor of installation to nothing more than connecting the gasengine with a fuel supply and the linewires with the electrical apparatus to be operated.

Specification of Letters Patent.

pear fro-n1 the following rent-ion. circuit-controlling attachment to our ain pivot 'upon which .it may Gtlier objects of our invention will apspecification. Referring to the drawings herewitli,- 'Figure l i' a diagrammatic View of our in- Fig. 2 is a detail face View or' the meter.A

Fig. 3 is a side ele'\'ation,vpartly in section of our aninieter showin@ the manner' oit mounting the Contact and sector, as hereafter described. lf is a sect-ion on the line of Fig. 2. F'gj. is an enlarged de" il View of our fuel Ycontrolling,` dexfice electric switch operated in conjunction therewith. The neclia 'ical apparatus ein braces the following: A gas-engine l of any desired an electric generator-motor 2; a. storage ln-,ttery a circuit controllingainpere heur meter hereafter described; a spark-coil 6,' a ilXedl pulley "l" and an idler tor belt driving any desired machinery: a fuel valve l0 and a .rmermet ll governing the saine; and electric, switches l3--fl, 1?*18, and 114. ille have also shown an ampere meter A, volt ineterlend switches Al5 and for governing the said meters; but tliese not essentials to our invention. lt will loe seen these several devices are all standard and well known, with the exception of the circuit-controlling annneter the `lnel-controlling device. These We will new describe.

Pil mounted upon tlie `oointer inangidly and irl-place of the point-er, a counteroalanced arm This arni 5 llas pirated to its end a co' ct member c for making and breakin,J an electric circuit, which ineniloer c We sliall hereafter terno tlie pivoted contact. This piroted contact upon one face lies electrical lconductor and upon its opposit. tace has an. insulating surface d. it is lie d normally in alinenient with the arm, 72 oy a s )rigr c, one end of which is secured to said piroted c-m et andthe et ier to bolt or screw wir .n constitutes t" turn. Thus t pivotcd contact may turned upon it oivot afrainst its suine snilicientlY to re- A l: .no

.sent either its conducting` surlface or its nonconducting surface; but when the pressure is removed it will assume its normal position in line with the arm A segment f is mounted over the face-plate of the ampere liouyrlrneter and insulated therefrom by insuwill then flow from generator 2 through Wire 22, armature 12, contacts 82 and 33, wire 42, switch-arm 13, contact 15, wire 43, Contact 20, line wires 24 and 23 through switch 44: to Contact 16, switch-arm 14 and wire 21 back to the other pole of the generator. It will also be observed that if, when the gas-engine and generator are running as just described, the switch 172-18 being open and the battery 3 under maximum, the gas-engine may be run wit-hout generator load and used to drive the pulley 7 and the machinery belted thereto.

The purpose of employing the amper meter A and the volt meter V is simply to enable the operator to know the battery load at any time. By closing the switch 45 a shunt including the lvolt meter may be established and the meter read, and by closing the switch 46 both ampere meter and volt meter may be' read. But weY would have it understood, as above stated, that the usev of'these meters is a matter of convenience, and notvof necessity, to our invention.

Having thus described our invention, we claim:

In an electric light and power system, in combination with a. gas-engine, generator and storage battery, a light' and power circuit, a generator circuit, a device in said on said arm having one contacting face a conductor and the other contacting face a nonconductor, a segment against which said pivoted contact bears with its conducting face in traveling toward maximum and with its nonconducting tace in traveling toward minimum charge,a solenoid, a circuit connecting said pivoted contact and: said segment with the battery through said solenoid, an armature governed by said solenoid, an electric switch in said generator circuit governed by said solenoid and its armature and means for controlling the fuel supply to said gasengine comprising a fuel valve and a valve stem on said valve connected to and governed by said armature. l

. In testimony that we claim the foregoing invention, we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES CKNICHOLS. VILLIAM H. WRIGHT.

vWitnesses: t

D. H. HARPER, L. A. DEUTHER. 

